Ask Dr. Goodman: My Experience with Austedo

After clinical trial results were announced for deutetrabenazine (Austedo), I hoped we might be getting a drug that didn't cause the side effects of other chorea treatments (antipsychotics or the old tetrabenazine). And now that I have prescribed it, it has proved better than I had expected based on the clinical trial results.  Though not successful in everyone, it has clearly decreased chorea in most. But what I was not expecting is how much this drug improves the functional activities that chorea impacted. (Part of Dr. Goodman's Article on Austedo on HD Drugworks)

To read the whole article please go to: http://hddrugworks.org/